This week on Tasteland we are joined by writer and award winning journalist, Cora Lewis. Cora's fiction has appeared at The Yale Review , Joyland Magazine , Epiphany , and elsewhere. She currently works at the Associated Press in New York, and she previously worked at BuzzFeed News. Cora's debut novella, Information Age, comes out on July 15th. Pre-order Cora's book Information Age __ Follow Cora Twitter/X LinkedIn Website __ Timestamps 00:00 Reading Information Age 04:37 Book design and unique literary devices 11:46 Title inspiration and influences 14:12 The artistry of fragmented writing 20:14 Composing fragments into a finished piece 26:09 You can't write life to scale 34:42 Honing the aesthetics of a novella 37:36 Cora's lack of social media presence 44:58 The duty to represent life accurately 51:25 A clearheaded view of AI __ Our intro song, Night Life, is written by Nakisso Peralta and performed by Chillers.
